RIR Transfer Policy Guide

Criteria: ARIN

Date: September 24, 2015
Registry: American Registry for Internet Numbers
Reached Final 8: April 24, 2014
Number of Transfers: 4,225 since 2011
Trafficking restrictions:
- The buyer must justify the supply it receives based upon no more than 24 months of utilization
- The seller cannot have received space from ARIN in the 12 months prior to the sale and cannot receive space from ARIN for 12 months after the sale
Needs assessment of recipient (buyer):
- The buyer must justify both existing allocations and the amount transferred (up to 24 months of utilization)
Fees:
- The source (seller) pays a one-time transfer fee of $300 per transaction, in addition normal fees associated with all of the addresses

Date: September 14, 2012
Registry: Réseaux IP Européens
Reached Final 8: September 14, 2012
Number of Transfers: 8,173 since 2012
Trafficking restrictions:
- The buyer cannot re-allocate complete or partial blocks of the same address space to another Local Internet Registry (LIR) for 24 months
- The buyer must justify the supply it receives according to current RIPE policies
Needs assessment of recipient (buyer):
- The buyer cannot transfer an allocation to another, related entity without justifying the need for space using the current needs-based policies (80% utilization requirement)
Fees:
- No transfer fee mentioned. Re-allocated blocks are no different for the allocations made directly by the RIPE NCC

Date: April 11, 2011
Registry: Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre
Reached Final 8: April 15, 2011
Number of Transfers: 2,741 since 2011
Trafficking restrictions:
- The buyer must justify the supply it receives, and it can receive up to 12 months of utilization
Needs assessment of recipient (buyer):
- The buyer must justify both existing allocations and the amount transferred (up to 12 months of utilization can be justified)
Fees:
- The buyer pays a transfer fee in addition to normal fees
- This transfer fee is 20% of the membership fee, which varies depending on this size of the block
- You may use this fee calculator provided by APNIC: http://submit.apnic.net/cgi-bin/feecalc.pl

Date: not exhausted yet
Registry: African Network Information Centre
Reached Final 8: March 31, 2017
Number of Transfers: Inter-RIR transfers from AFRINIC not allowed currently
Trafficking restrictions:
- The buyer must justify the supply it receives based on no more than 12 months of utilization
- The seller cannot have received space from ARIN in the 12 months prior to the sale and cannot receive space from ARIN for 12 months after the sale
- Buyer and Seller AFRINIC membership fees need to be up to date, and neither buyer nor seller may be in current dispute with AFRINIC
- Transferred legacy IPv4 resources will lose their legacy status after the transfer
Needs assessment of recipient (buyer):
- The buyer must justify both existing allocations and the amount transferred (up to 12 months of utilization can be justified)
- There is an 80% utilization requirement
Fees: https://www.afrinic.net/library/membership-documents/273-membership-fees

Date: February 15, 2017 – phase 3 exhaustion
Registry: Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre
Reached Final 8: May, 2014
Number of Transfers: Inter RIR transfers from LACNIC not allowed currently
Trafficking restrictions:
- The seller cannot have received space from ARIN in the 12 months prior to the sale and cannot receive space from ARIN for 12 months after the sale
- Transferred legacy IPv4 resources will lose their legacy status after the transfer
Needs assessment of recipient (buyer):
- The buyer must justify both existing allocations and the amount transferred (up to 12 months of utilization can be justified)
- Initial allocations shall not be based on any current or future routing restrictions, but on actual and demonstrated use of IPv4 addresses
Fees: At the moment LACNIC does not charge a fee